New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-07
CAUGHT WHERE MEN MEET.
INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES TOLD IN PUB
Lie PLACES,

clerks and town boys who became enlisted soldiers
during the War OF the Rebellion An old officer said
"The mon who from the farms, who had been
accustomed to three regular meals every day froma
table stacked high with food nnd to ten Solo hours
OF sleep after hard days work In the field broke down
quickly under tie comparative dleness of army exist
enco and the hregularity with which they securon
their meals. 1t was too great change IN 'hcir
habits and mode OF living. The boys from the clues
and towns who had been accustomed to roaming
around without any particular or liked hour ior
eating who were accustomed to being out at all
times Of night and the pae-faced clerks who had been
standing behind counters from daybrcak to DUSK
were who could endure the greatest prvauons
with the least discomfort They could march all
day on crackers and coffee and fight all day on
frightened waistband.r John f. Burton OF Wisconsin,
who Il one of the heavy investors in the iron develop
ments In his state and formerly in the life insur
ance business Endorsed this view and then added from
his life insurance experience this bit Of Information
aThere IA a rulc for estimating the comparative en-
DURANGO Of men that is rs certain as In the height
weight and build of horses The perfectly healthy
and active man, who Is in perfect physical condition
should weigh two and quarter pounds for every
inoh Of his height That rule vii test man ninety
nine times In every hundred"
had pointed out to me as a successful young real
estate lawyer the other day athletic man OF blond
complexion with light yellow side whiskers named
Alfred Pagelow, and told that firm OF real
estate operators alone pays him $4,000 year to
attend to It's legal business ale deserves his Sue
cess" said my Informant, "because OF tho hard
struggle he made for IT. He was friendless New
York boy, who went to mghtschool while no was
clerkng for q law firm He acquired four lam
gages by dnt Of hard study and earned his admission
TO the bar at tho same time"
Travellers who spend any time in Denver rarely
fail to speak Of the excellent horse-nesh they find In
Col parh U10
General Grants mail carrier during the war but IL now
connected with the Bell Telephone Company, said
this topic: at Is the common thing If you ask for
good horse in Denver and can make them under
stand that you accustomed to horses, that they
Will turn you out three-minute roadster. You can
get O span that will make that time for you l
presume there arc 4 hundred horses In the Denver
livery stables that can show three-mnute gait
Whom i out at the exposition l made known
my desire for good beast and had little black
mare sent around that took two Of US In the buggy
ut pace that kept up with the best on the road
Naturally wanted her In future riding. After j
had driven her three OF four times was one day
told that abe had been cent out went down to
the stable about It, and the stable man laughed
while he said that he had half a dozen
better animals than the marc and considered her
quite ordinary. lie gave bay horse that proved
his assertion true to at least Of his animals"
"Any time that you want a new-fanglcd, high
toned royal drink just como around and let me mix
you one," said the bartender ut the Fifth Avenue
Hotel yesterday "The fayontc drink of the Siamese
princes who have been stopping here Is lemonade
and beer" he continued at beats anything evor
1 mixed
DO Witt C. Wheeler has gone of to the Thousand
Islands with his family. The old party with which
no went TO that resort for several years was broken
up last account Of . caG IL was composed
of "shodp shook, s. b. French, Charles +. Coon and
General James W. Hustled. The cat was white cat
1t came up to the window of one Of tho party On
the fret night after their arrival last year At tho
hotel whore they accustomed to stay. 1t
purred ard scratched TO get III and thon went of
housing The second night 1t around and
tried again to mako friends The next morning
the incident was mentioned at the breakfast table one
of larty IN sport offered bet that there was no
wv Dospe =" the Indorl and bringing him up later
In the day to that he had never seen white |
cat the islands. That night tho white cat came
PERMITTED It's iSr to be stocked. When this story was
re,ated In the morning me other men shook the,
While they talking the eat meandered across tho
lawn and was trumphanty pointed out by him In |
put out, but solcmny asserted that 1t a black |
cat that they saw on tho lawn and that his oRtiea
for a week with such ealnestnoss that he began 10
think they were fight. ard refused his accustomed
wife heard OF It and tho wives OF other members of
the r@y 9f H o a c@e sober enough affair
when the women announced that they we're not going
IL
wear they have all boon Obliged to wear oil" for the
summer. They 10 not think 1t half As funny as the |
original joke
one Of the succetsful men in wall street is James |
Seymour, who Is Familiarity talked about as "Jm' |
seymour As an illustration OF tho ups and downs Of
life Texan told that Mr. Seymour was formerly |
in tho commission business at Galveston Texas.
where no failed. lie was behind some $4,000 or
s5OOOO. His father an old commission merchant
and broker galveston Since he came 10 New
York 1T said that be has made three millions OF Of
1aIar N. nl1flm =
the owner OF a fine Yacht which he dSpenses hos
pitali;y with Texan genally
The guests OF the Fifth Avenue Hotel. who for |
vonty- five years have been accustomed to the sight
Of genial atom" Gay, the head waiter In his con- |
vcntonal suit Of black. would hardly have recos
nIzed him as l him yesterday On Broadway de
Lad on a tourists suit OF blue flannel with gray |
sailor flannel shirt fully displayed In 'front.' and |
sof gray hat. The metamorphosis was as com
plete as any society man ever underwent In summer.
IL was occasioncd by tho fact that he was taking |
himself away for a vacation with his family IN rlc
n s tho time he has been head waiter have there
been so few guests a. during the last MONT nave
found tho same relative condition Of things at all
the hotels
Some odd things take place in saloons which
become the resort Of steady customers. The old |
chaps who gather in at regular hours have many |
ways of creating fun and amusement for themselves
In a place on Twenty-thrdst. the other night there
were a dozen /" old timers who were puzzling their
gray heads for novelty; One Of them offered 10 TO
bet that companion could not cat hVe square SOFA
crackers I'm five consecutive minutes without drink
ing 10 molstcn his tongue and throat The task |
seemed such a light one that the bet was promptly
taken ON the third cracker the sport began The |
man VINO had attempted the task was literally chok-
Ing by tho time he set his teeth on the tourth craeho
and had not taken more than a mOuthful when time |
was called Meanwhile, the tears were running |
ont Of MS eyes and thoy were bulgng out in sympa
thetic response to the pain In his guct. One man |
said he had the trick attempted hundred times
but never successfully. Ihen some oho olaI"u
discussion about weiss beer, and a bet made that
no one in party could drink glass of II at SIN
clio draught. IL is O common thing to SEQ thirsty |
beer drinkers swallow glass full of ordinary lager
at one draught Everybody thought it might ne |
o. easily done with the ess beer. But the trial |
produced 1--WE ridiculous looking men holding haif |
empty glasses, while their m0utls stood open iIom
the effects OF the gathering gas weiss Deer Is iu VI